Waverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. Anne of GeiersteinR. Cadell, 1846 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... Rothsay Lauder . . . . The Banner of Earl Doug- las at the Battle of Otter- burn ... Dickes .. Dickes .... 259 ... Rothsay was confined ... .... Paton .... The murdered Rothsay .. R. S. Lauder . Campsie Linn , Perth- shire .. ... 280 ...
... Rothsay Lauder . . . . The Banner of Earl Doug- las at the Battle of Otter- burn ... Dickes .. Dickes .... 259 ... Rothsay was confined ... .... Paton .... The murdered Rothsay .. R. S. Lauder . Campsie Linn , Perth- shire .. ... 280 ...
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... Rothsay take charge of it ; and the wild young prince will regard the outrage as something for his gay companions to scoff at , and his minstrels to turn into song . " " Away with Rothsay ! he is too gay to be our judge , " again ...
... Rothsay take charge of it ; and the wild young prince will regard the outrage as something for his gay companions to scoff at , and his minstrels to turn into song . " " Away with Rothsay ! he is too gay to be our judge , " again ...
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... Rothsay , in order to give him the present possession of a dignity next to that of the throne . * But the young Prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond of power ...
... Rothsay , in order to give him the present possession of a dignity next to that of the throne . * But the young Prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond of power ...
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... Rothsay , incensed at the sacrifice of his hand and his inclinations to this state intrigue , took his own mode of venting his displeasure , by neglecting his wife , contemning his formidable and dangerous father - in - law , and ...
... Rothsay , incensed at the sacrifice of his hand and his inclinations to this state intrigue , took his own mode of venting his displeasure , by neglecting his wife , contemning his formidable and dangerous father - in - law , and ...
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... Rothsay you think will be most available to his ultimate benefit , and that of the kingdom . " " This is unkind , brother , " said the King ; " you indicate the painful path which you would have me pursue , yet you offer me not your ...
... Rothsay you think will be most available to his ultimate benefit , and that of the kingdom . " " This is unkind , brother , " said the King ; " you indicate the painful path which you would have me pursue , yet you offer me not your ...
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Page 295 - So spoke, in the emphatic words of Scripture, the helpless and bereft father, tearing his gray beard and hoary hair, while Albany, speechless and conscience-struck, did not venture to interrupt the tempest of his grief. But the agony of the King's sorrow almost instantly changed to...
Page 105 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!